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The Limits of Idealism - When Good Intentions Go Bad (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
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The Limits of Idealism - When Good Intentions Go Bad (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
Series: Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice
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If the truth be known, I am only a partially reformed idealist. In
the secret depths of my soul, I still wish to make the world a
better place and sometimes fantasize about heroically eradicating
its faults. When I encounter its limitations, it is consequently
with deep regret and continued surprise. How, I ask myself, is it
possible that that which seems so fight can be a chimera? And why,
I wonder, aren't people as courageous, smart, or nice as I would
like? The pain of realizing these things is sometimes so intense
that I want to close my eyes and lose myself in the kinds of
daydreams that comforted me as a youngster. One thing is clear, my
need to come to grips with my idealism had its origin in a lifetime
of naivet6. From the beginning, I wanted to be a "good" person.
Often when life was most treacherous, I retreated into a comer from
whence I escaped into reveries of moral glory. When I was very
young, my faith was in religion. In Hebrew school, I took my
lessons seriously and tried to apply them at home. By my teen
years, this had been replaced by an allegiance to socialism. In the
Brooklyn where I grew up, my teachers and relatives made this seem
the natural course. When I reached my twenties, however, and was
obliged to confront a series of personal deficiencies,
psychotherapy shouldered its way to the fore.
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